Your 5 favourite songs ever (non-Sisters)

[Cedarjet]

Just list the 5 non-Sisters songs of which you say: YES!

Let me start this off with:

-David Bowie - Heroes
-Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way
-Visage - Fade To Grey
-Blondie - Accidents Never Happen
-New Order - Ceremony

[Feuerwasser]

Some good tunes in there. Ok, let me try. In no order whatsoever:

-Accept - I Don't Wanna Be Like You
-Blitz - Never Surrender
-Imperiet - Var E Vargen (swedish, now split up band with the somewhat famous Thåström)
-Prince - When Doves Cry
-Nazareth - Heart's Grown Cold

Disclaimer: this list would probably look different tomorrow, it's only what I'm in the mood for right now. I mean there's SO many good tunes out there, and also SO many Sisters songs, as you all know. More, When You Don't See Me and I Was Wrong all fit on this list atm.

[Kutan]

Marina And The Diamonds - Bubblegum Bitch
Men Without Hats - Security
Wall Of Voodoo - Call Of The West
Within Temptation - Restless
Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn Part One

[eastmidswhizzkid]

Simple Game -The Four Tops
In Shreds -The Chameleons
Losing My Religion -REM
I Want Everything -The Godfathers
Siamese Twins -The Cure

[nightmusic]

An eclectic mix...:

Cranes - Sixth of May
Drab Majesty - Hallow
Austra - Lose It
Curve - m*****n from God
Prodigy - Breathe

[EmmaPeelWannaBe]

5 songs - that's tough.

Today's list:

Life on Mars - Bowie
Ziggy Stardust - Bowie
Happy When It Rains - JAMC
Ocean Rain - EATB
The Spangle Maker - Cocteau Twins

[Zacharias]

For me it's impossible to do a top 5 songs. I think I have a top 500 list on Spotify.

BUT! Five songs that get a lot of play right now:

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Mercy Seat
Patti Smith - Pissing in a River
The Gun Club - Mother of Earth
Dune Messiah - What You've Become
Svart Katt - Oändligt Mörker

[markfiend]

I agree with Zacharias I can't pick a top 5 songs. I'm just going to post the last 5 songs I've heard on shuffle:

The Cure - A Forest
Gary Numan - M. E.
Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus
Killing Joke - Wardance
New Model Army - Vagabonds

[limur]

Hard choice;

Goodnight (Good Riddance) - Blyth Power (Steven Cooper and The Charlies cover)
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Never Understand
Desperate Journalist - Cedars
Violent Femmes - American Music
Belle and Sebastian - I Didn't See It Coming (Richard X mix)

[bearskin]

Joy Division - Transmission
Hazel O'Connor - Will You
Mary J Blige / U2 - One
DJ Tim & Misjah - Access (Original mix)
The Jam - A Town Called Malice

[Chaotican]

This was really tough!

Well, except the first one: GOLD by Spandau Ballet. I need to work out how to have that piped everywhere I go... “you’re indestructible...�

Honorable mentions:

Nine inch nails - Sin
Joy division - isolation
Bauhaus- slice of life
Alphaville - Germany with love
Ultravox - lament

[pearson]

bowie - station to station
underworld - juanita
motörhead - killed by death
u2 - lemon
the cure - one hundred years

[zaltys7]

Haven't seen this topic on Heartland before so thought I would add my tuppence worth

Life - Des'ree

My Humps - The Black Eyed Peas

Baker Street - Undercover

A Little Bit More - Dr Hook

It's Raining Men - The Weather Girls

All of these songs mean so much to me. If only the Sisters had covered each of these wonderful songs in their own inimitable way, well, the world would be different, that's for sure!

[Kutan]

You are all so right when you say that naming just 5 is impossible. When I rethink today (being in a definite metal mood), I'd come up with 5 completely different songs:

Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God
Accept - Princess Of The Dawn
Kataklysm - Crippled And Broken
Dimmu Borgir - Alt lys er svunnet hen
Bolt Thrower - The Killchain

(I promise I will not post again on this topic)

[bangles]

At this particular moment...

AllTomorrows Parties - The Velvet Underground
Tour De France - Kraftwerk
Memphis Tennessee - Elvis
Montague Terrace (In Blue) - Scott Walker
Mother Of Pearl - Roxy Music

[Spiggy's hat]

Papua New Guinea - Future Sound of London
Swamp Thing - The Chameleons
Perfume - Paris Angels
Country Life - The Bolshoi
Jimmy Jones - The Vapors

[Zacharias]

Did a Spotify playlist of the songs that are mentioned thus far:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4cYYP ... 5ayh7WqxzL

These are however not on the list since I could not find them:

Kutan: Men Without Hats - Security

EmmaPeelWannaBe: their fourth album - EATB (whole album...)

limur: Goodnight (Good Riddance) - Blyth Power (Steven Cooper and The Charlies cover)

Chaotican: Skipped Ultravox since it was the last of the 6.

Spiggy's hat: Country Life - The Bolshoi

[Zacharias]

...and they were added in the order they were mentioned in this thread. If any of the songs are the incorrect version or whatever, feel free to change it or write me and I'll do it.

[czuczu]

Sound & Vision - Dave
All Is Full of Love - Björk
Love In A Car - The House Of Love
Three Days - Janes Addiction
Yes - McAlmont and Butler

All instantly satisfying when I need to listen to something.

[limur]

These are however not on the list since I could not find them:

limur: Goodnight (Good Riddance) - Blyth Power (Steven Cooper and The Charlies cover)

Nice work.

"Goodnight (Good Riddance)" starts at 14:12 in the track "Edward Lay Bare" from Blyth Power's On The Viking Station. It's a hidden track on the CD...after the silence at the end of ELB so doesn't appear as a separate track on Spotify.

https://open.spotify.com/track/3KuKnDpJ770sUL5YpHVEha

[bearskin]

Did a Spotify playlist of the songs that are mentioned thus far:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4cYYP ... 5ayh7WqxzL

Thoroughly enjoying this Playlist, thanks everyone!

[mh]

I guess likewise that on any given day I'd pick a different top 5, so here's the 5 most played on Spotify last year for me:

1. The Gun Club - Sex Beat
2. Kleenex - Night Toad
3. Blood and Roses - Necromantra
4. The Dark - The Masque
5. Ausgang - Head On

Added bonus is that you'll definitely find these on Spotify!

[sam donut]

With the standard "any given day" dusclaimer:
1) into my arms - Nick Cave
2) Tears - The Chameleons
3) Hurt - any version really- original, Johnny Cash, even the Julianne Regan version
4) Away - The Bolshoi (mainly for memories of dancing with a certain QB/BB)
5) Just Like Heaven - The Cure (seriously how good is this song? You hear it so much in clubs etc that you grow used to it but by gum it's good)

[sam donut]

Dis not dus